Data Security Contracts in the North West

Data Security
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Security skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Security over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 114 147
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Security 20 23 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.83% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.97% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 9
10th Percentile £193 £413 £300
25th Percentile £328 £456 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +17.65% -32.54%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £706
90th Percentile £660 £685 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £18.50 £40.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -53.75% +107.79% -12.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Security falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Security as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Security in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Security in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Security in the North West

Data Security
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Security within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +18 18 £515 -2.00% 21
Cheshire -1 2 £475 - 7
Data Security
England

Data Security
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) SAS
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.00%) CMS
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (20.00%) GitHub
2 4 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (15.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) dbt
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) Akamai
5 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) 2G
1 4 (20.00%) 3G
1 4 (20.00%) 4G
1 4 (20.00%) 5G
2 1 (5.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) Big Data
2 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 2 (10.00%) Data Vault
3 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) HBase
4 1 (5.00%) Metadata
4 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Pentaho
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) ERwin
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) SAS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Risk Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Kafka
2 4 (20.00%) OAuth
2 4 (20.00%) OAuth2
2 4 (20.00%) OpenID
2 4 (20.00%) SAML
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) IoT
1 4 (20.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Android
1 4 (20.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Analytics
1 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (30.00%) ETL
2 6 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 5 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (20.00%) Digital Twin
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 4 (20.00%) Time Management
4 4 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (5.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Dell
3 1 (5.00%) F5
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Zscaler